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Articles & Reports
Rather than pay high prices for publicly traded real estate securities, some advisers prefer private pools. Read more
The first rule of remodeling for investment is this: You are not going to live in this house. Your sole interest is getting the best price for the house in the shortest amount of time. Or, if you're planning to rent it out, you want to sign a lease and stop paying the mortgage yourself. Read more
Investors are increasingly seeking creative transaction structures to cash in on the heated real estate market. Read more
The Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH) recommends that you start with the following techniques to improve a home's quality, durability, energy efficiency, environmental performance and affordability. PATH selected these techniques because they can dramatically boost a builder's ability to achieve these goals. Read more
Business structures and financing round out the final steps for finding and developing land. Read more
An email from a website visitor prompted this article which I guess I should have written from the very start. The question was alarmingly simple. "Why invest in vacant land instead of improved real estate like single family homes, apartment buildings, commercial real estate or other forms of income producing property?" Read more
If the idea of a new house is interesting but not yet something that occupies many of your waking hours, which of the several hundred books on the subject would be the most helpful? Read more
According to recent statistics published by the U.S. Census Bureau, 75% of multifamily investors are over the age of 45. Over half of these (51.6%) own less than five units, and they earned approximately 31% of their income from ownership of rental properties. Read more
Paper, for those not in the real estate business, are debt instruments called "notes" which are secured by real estate. Examples of "paper" include mortgages, trust deeds, real estate contracts, and other debt devices used when real estate is sold, transferred, or otherwise encumbered without a full payment of cash to the seller. Read more
The curse of most real estate investors is negative cash flow ("NCF"), the unfortunate circumstance where a property's expenses exceed the income the same property can provide its owner. As a real estate attorney I hear complaints and pleas for help almost every day from owners suffering from NCF issues. Read more
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